Month: February 2006
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Ruminations over Coffee
Behold the Starbucks Coffee Cup. Certainly one of the most used and most widely recognized objects in North America. Certainly you would think if anything about this cup could be optimized and improved upon, it would have already be done. For example, notice the convenient half-height grip which prevents you from burning your hand. It’s […]
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Reflections on the SOTU
So I mentioned a few days ago that I didn’t watch George W.’s State of the Union this year. But I was still very interested in it. So I pulled down the text of the speech and had a read. There were a few things in there that annoyed me, as usual, and a few […]